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eiii bloggers... just want to share the story of a taiwanese movie "I not stupid 2"

The main casts of the movie were three teenagers which are Tom, Jerry and Tom’s best friend, Chencai. Chengcai has a single parent, his father. He is 15 year old and since his mother left, the way his father disciplines him is very harsh. It’s been 13 years since the last time his father gave an appreciation and recognition to him as well as well as hearing the word “I love you”. Another was the story of Tom. He is good in computers. His father hates it every time he touches his laptop. There was a time when his father had a presentation for business, he had nothing to present to his clients because his laptop was damage by virus. What his son did, He fixed the laptop and immediately brought it to his father’s office. When he handed it to his father instead of receiving a thank you, he was scolded for his father thought that he escaped from school and he is not taking his studies seriously. So, he left carrying a burden to his father. Tom has a younger brother, jerry. He was chosen to be the leading actor on their recital. His teacher kept on bragging him to invite his parents to see him for the show. But he find it hard to confront his parents because they can hardly be catch and talk to at home for they are always busy with their own work. In fact, they only communicate through note in the refrigerator. His father mentioned that he earns $500 an hour with his voice alone. He thought of saving money to pay at least one hour of his father for the recital. But since his savings was not enough, he decided to steal the money left unattended by the cashier in their canteen. Their parents tried to make it up to them but still they don’t know what their children needs. But they came to a point of realizing that the situation is already complicated and they began to realize their faults and shortcomings. In the end, they reconcile and try to build a strong relationship with each other.

The central theme of the movie was about appreciation, it is an act of valuing either a thing or a person, and recognition is an act of avowal or acknowledgement or to indicate appreciation. Both of these come along with each other. When you appreciate, you gave value on things you received from others. And when you recognize, you act out or proclaim how you value someone or how you appreciate their goodness.
But it is true that we can hardly see it with our naked eyes nor feel with our own hearts. It felt like sometimes we are being injected with anesthetics, we became numb and unable to feel the people around us who cares and loves us. We fail to say anything in return with someone’s good deed even show or let them feel how we value them. It is sad that we always have to go to an end before we realize the worth of someone we loved. We come to an end with regrets in our hearts. We regret those days when we are unable to say thank you whenever our classmate helps us out on our assignments, forget to say simple appreciation like wow, great, wonderful, awesome whenever our friend shares that she got a 90 on her major subject, or even say the word “I love you” to our parents for providing us care and giving all that we need. Later when we realize those things, it is already late, they are already too far from us and worst is they are already gone. We are so confident of the things and people we have around us to the extent of we are already taking them for granted.
I, at this point of my life, have already experienced and currently experiencing this kind of situation. It is so hard for me to notice and appreciate the goodness of someone, hard for me to take good care and value their worth and hard for me to show how I really feel towards them and how they really mean to me. I am now hoping and praying for the forgiveness of people I have taken for granted. And trying to fix the conflicts and retrieve the things that are already gone. So, the best thing we could ever do is to treasure every little thing that is coming and happening to us. Let us make use of our time and do the things we have to do before time passes us by. Let us not be afraid of showing what we really feel and giving compliments to people. Let’s shower them with lots of compliments everyday, remind them how you appreciate them, how you care for them and how you love them or even say sorry for all of your shortcomings and selfishness. It feels good receiving a simple compliment from others, it feels good of feeling so worthy to them and it feels good knowing that you have made someone else’s day. Words are very powerful, we can destructs and even curse someone if we speak tactlessly or construct goodness and bless them with our words of wisdom. In our simple words, we can lighten and boost not only someone’s day but it can be everybody’s day. Let us be reminded that great things happen with simple things.